''Landslides'' is a monthly

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covering research on all aspects of

landslide Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...

s. The topics covered by the journal range from landslide identification and monitoring,

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, laboratory and field testing, to

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and mitigation. It was established in 2004 as the official journal of the International Consortium on Landslides and is published by

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. The

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is Kyoji Sassa (

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Abstracting and indexing

''Landslides'' is abstracted and indexed in: According to the 2018 ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 3.811.

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*{{Official website, https://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/natural+hazards/journal/10346 Geomorphology journals Earth and atmospheric sciences journals Academic journals established in 2004 Monthly journals Springer Science+Business Media academic journals Geophysics journals English-language journals